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Subject:	Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.mecha
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:52:27 GMT
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Hi, I am about to embark on building my very first Mecha and intend to incorporate the Mindstorms RCX unit (with motors/light sensor/etc.). Does anyone have some advice they can offer? Should a Mech use bi-ped walking or wheels? Are there some sites around that provide some building instructions to assist me? Any advice/all advice glady accepted :-) Thanks, Ed.

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		Re: Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
(...) Very cool. (...) I'd think bi-pedal would be a tough thing, dealing with balance and all. 3+ legs would help, if you really want it to walk. I'm not a huge fan of wheels, how about tank treads? That would be cool, and easy to control w/ just (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

		Re: Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
(...) Yes very cool. (...) um,.......what part of the Mech do you want the 3 motor ports to control? how dow you want the sensors to fit into the design? (...) Are you familiar with these? www.brickshelf.com/c...Legomaster (...) Eric Oh, thanks (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

		Re: Building my first Mecha with an RCX - advice please?
Edward, (...) You may find this site of interest: (URL) site's dedicated to RCX-driven bi-peds of all shapes and sizes. Some are rather humanoid, which is what I suspect you want, but some are more tank-like, which, to my mind, anyway, still qualify (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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